Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ancient Greek prosody, a foot consisting in its fundamental form of five syllables, the first and fourth of which are short, and the second, third, and fifth long.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] In zoology, a genus of nematoid worms, of the family Strongylidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Pros.) A foot of five syllables (usually � -- -� -).
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- noun poetry A
metrical foot offive syllables .
Etymologies
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Latin, from Ancient Greek.
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